This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

Pick up this rock and become an instant legend.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

This canyon is comprised of gorgeous waters and magnificent basalt columns.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.